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Come on Toyota! :p It will be interesting to see how Nissan will go as well. From what I read it's going to be a rainy weekend, maybe the end of qualifying and Sunday will be affected by rain. As I said at the WEC thread I'm planning to watch all 24 hours this year!

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I'm really looking forward to the LMP1 battle. To have 11 top cars from Audi, Porsche, Toyota and Nissan is just incredible, especially after having just 7 last year. Some great young drivers in there too.

It's gonna be so interesting to see how Nissan get on, I really don't know what to expect. Hopefully Practice and Qualifying tonight will give a better indication. Porsche should be good on the straights too if their pace from Silverstone and Spa is anything to go by. But Audi should be faster in the corners.

Toyota seemed a bit disappointing in the test day, but who knows. They're always there.

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So annoyed I'm not there this year. The last couple of years have been incredible and the line up this year looks even better!

Managed to stay awake for almost the whole race last year (had a 10 minute doze on the Saturday night), going to be harder to stay awake for the whole thing watching it on TV! :D So hard to call a winner in LMP1; I think Audi will be lucky to hang on again, but if any team is capable of defending the title its them. It's going to be very interesting to see how the Nissan performs.

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Don't expect much from Nissan this year, its rumor (if not confirmed) that they will be running without hybrid power. So the detriment they take due to the front wheel drive system will be expanded now that there is not added hybrid power. They should still be rocket ships down the back straight, but the twisty bits are going to be a nightmare. Speculation says they'll be about as fast as an LMP2 car.

It's a real shame because everything Nissan has done for this car has been completely revolutionary and potentially brilliant... they just need it to work all together for a change.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHKF-nvWa7s(Not great video quality)Jan Magnussen managed to almost completely destroy the #63 Corvette last night, it's been pulled out the race weekend as a result. :(

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Audi will win. Because, y'know, that's just what they do at Le Mans. It's almost an unwritten rule of WEC that, no matter of performance or circumstance, Audi just always find a way to win at the 24.

Hopefully Porsche will push them for it. Hopefully Toyota too, but their performance this season has been a little underwhelming thus far. And this is a learning year for Nissan. I really really hope they can get the car concept working though. It's one of the most fascinating and unique cars to come out of any racing series for years.

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Why are there three safety cars? And if the race is red flagged, does the clock continue?

There are three Safety Cars because the track is so long. They need to keep the pace under control over the whole track. Imagine how long it would take to group all the cars if there was only 1 SC that came out just behind one of the GT cars - one of those things driving at a safe speed would take ages to get all the way around the circuit. So they split it up into three.

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3 safety cars is because the circuit is pretty long and the cars are usually fairly well spread out :p As for the red flag I think the clock does keep running but I'm not sure, not really up to date with how that works at Le Mans.

I know they can use something called Slow Zones though which is kinda like the VSC but actually works better I'd say, they all have to do 60kph in the zone rather than a specific time.